Conflict Quotes

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

For me, drama is conflict.

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

More will mean worse.

For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

Tell me again how much you agree with me.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.